getenv('HTTP_REFERER') in Firefox vs IE7 (iframes)

[kumais]

Hi,

I use getenv('HTTP_REFERER') in an iframe to keep track of the referring URL (of the page loaded in the frame). It works fine in Firefox but in IE7, it reads the URL of the parent window instead of the iframe page.

Just to make it clear:

e.g.

I have a page

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php

which contains an iframe with something like <iframe src = "

http://www.mydomain.com/myfolder/test.php?id=1234">....

Now somebody clicks on a link in the iframe which loads another page within the same iframe. Say this page contains the following code:

$ref = getenv('HTTP_REFERER');

In Firefox,

echo $ref;

returns

http://www.domain.com/myfolder/test.php?id=1234

but in IE7, it returns

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php

Does anybody know of a workaround to make it work properly in IE7?

Thanks.

 

[DonQuichote]

Referrer headers are browser-dependent. Some browsers do not send them at all, and some allow you to change them if you wish. So do not depend on them.

That said, from your descrition I understand that IE7 has it right and not Firefox.